Nina Pham
An American nurse who had been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus after volunteering to help treat patients in Sierra Leone is now being monitored at a facility in Bethesda, Maryland.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo urged residents to stay calm amid confirmed reports that a doctor, who returned home from Guinea, has tested positive for Ebola.
Ashoka Mukpo, the American freelance photojournalist who tested positive for Ebola virus after working in Liberia, has finally recovered from the disease, reports said.
The boyfriend of Nina Pham, one of the nurses who contracted the Ebola virus at a hospital in Dallas, may also have the disease, several news reports revealed.
Ebola-Stricken Nurse and Hero Nina Pham Saying Goodbye To Her Co-Workers in Dallas Before Being Transferred To Maryland
CDC has included in its monitoring the 132 passengers who flew with Amber Joy Vinson, the second nurse who was tested positive for the Ebola virus, from Cleveland to Dallas on October 13. Vinson was running a 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit fever during the flight.
Days after Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan died of Ebola on October 8, while being treated in the U.S., there are two more confirmed cases of the disease in the country as of October 15, 2014.
